This article draws on Cohn and Kremnitzer's multidimensional analysis of judicial activism and applies the analysis in the Canadian context. The analysis is conducted in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions giving the police the power to conduct sniffer-dog searches. That case context serves as a substrate to reveal the utility and limitations of a multidimensional approach. While recent scholarship on judicial activism has focused on quantifying activism over time, court composition, and constitutional issues, this article contends that there is potential to introduce even more texture into activism scholarship by paying attention to the interstitial details of judicial reasoning rather than focusing on the disposition alone. This textured approach accepts that what the Court says in these interstices is important because it is part of a discussion about core constitutional principles. Activism scholarship is informed by an investigation into deviations from one's particular allegiance to constitutional norms. The nomenclature of these norms is relatively certain, yet their exact definition remains open to vigorous debate. This race for content lies at the heart of much activist-based critique. Multidimensional analysis can help form the language of this conversation, aid in giving content and order to debates, and help us to discover our normative constitutional content. This content is the starting point for critical evaluation of our constitutional norms.